Text of Kerry's speech today

[displacedtexan]

There was a great post earlier today while JK was speaking. Someone kept posting criticism of JK's oratorical style and whining that JK was no Bill Clinton, and someone else posted: If you want to be entertained, watch HBO.

LOL!


http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0227.html

Excerpt:

“Fighting a Comprehensive War on Terrorism”
Remarks by Senator John Kerry at the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations

February 27, 2004

University of California at Los Angeles

As Prepared for Delivery

It’s an honor to be here today at the Burkle Center – named in honor of a good friend and one of America’s outstanding business leaders.

Day in and day out, George W. Bush reminds us that he is a war President and that he wants to make national security the central issue of this election. I am ready to have this debate. I welcome it.

I am convinced that we can prove to the American people that we know how to make them safer and more secure – with a stronger, more comprehensive, and more effective strategy for winning the War on Terror than the Bush Administration has ever envisioned.

As we speak, night has settled on the mountains of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. If Osama bin Laden is sleeping, it is the restless slumber of someone who knows his days are numbered. I don’t know if the latest reports – saying that he is surrounded – are true or not. We’ve heard this news before.